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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Clear is better than clever [pdf]

    495 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  2. Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline

    495 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  3. 800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service

    495 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  4. What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right

    495 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  5. Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

    495 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  6. 15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

    495 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  7. Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it

    495 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  8. Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

    494 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  9. Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

    494 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  10. Everyone should read support emails

    494 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  11. Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

    494 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  12. Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

    494 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  13. O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation

    493 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  14. I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit

    493 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  15. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

    493 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  16. AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan

    493 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  17. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

    492 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  18. I Quit Social Media for a Year

    492 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  19. Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968)

    492 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  20. Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign in with Apple

    492 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  21. Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try

    492 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  22. Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502

    492 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  23. 100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web

    491 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  24. Windows gets a new terminal

    491 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  25. Online activists are silencing us, scientists say

    491 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  26. Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew

    490 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  27. Merry Christmas HN

    490 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  28. AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

    490 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  29. A Decade of Remote Work

    490 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  30. My application ran away and called home from Redmond

    490 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  31. Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization

    489 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  32. SpaceX nails triple booster landing after satellite delivery

    489 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  33. Practices for writing high-performance Go

    489 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  34. Google's PageRank patent has expired

    489 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  35. Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?

    488 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  36. H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)

    488 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  37. Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity

    488 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  38. When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup

    488 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  39. Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship

    487 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  40. Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption

    487 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  41. iPadOS

    487 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  42. OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor

    486 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  43. Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

    486 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  44. Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases

    486 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  45. Show HN: Learn React fundamentals

    485 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  46. Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

    485 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  47. Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome

    485 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  48. Why Medium Sucks

    485 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  49. The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing

    485 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  50. Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

    485 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  51. How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser

    484 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  52. The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (2012)

    484 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  53. FPGA Design for Software Engineers

    484 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  54. W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

    483 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  55. About 2M People Rally in Hong Kong Weekend Protests

    483 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  56. Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

    483 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  57. Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals

    483 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  58. Dark mode in a website with CSS

    482 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  59. PinePhone Review

    482 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  60. Birds Are Vanishing from North America

    482 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  61. Joe the office mate

    482 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  62. Minimalism – An undervalued development skill

    482 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  63. CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship

    482 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  64. CERN migrates to open-source technologies

    482 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  65. Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool

    481 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  66. Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?

    481 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  67. Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes

    481 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  68. Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building

    481 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  69. Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet

    481 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  70. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

    481 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  71. If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011)

    480 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  72. Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

    480 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  73. Win32 on macOS

    480 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  74. Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms

    480 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  75. Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

    480 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  76. Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake

    480 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  77. TLDR Stock Options

    480 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  78. The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]

    480 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  79. How to Find Consulting Clients

    479 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  80. Ask HN: What do you self-host?

    479 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  81. HEAD – A guide to <head> elements

    479 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  82. Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?

    479 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  83. The Plain Text Project

    479 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  84. Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

    479 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  85. Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service

    479 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  86. Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)

    479 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  87. 63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions

    478 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  88. Switch to OpenStreetMap

    478 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  89. In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

    478 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  90. Sites with dumb password rules

    478 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  91. Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer

    477 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  92. Oslo made its city center basically car-free

    477 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  93. Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers

    477 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  94. Emacs 26.2 Released

    477 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  95. The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]

    477 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  96. A website coding itself live

    477 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  97. 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

    477 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  98. Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium

    476 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  99. Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

    476 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  100. You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work

    476 points • comment • feb 22, 2019